Artificial Intelligence

The Association for Computing Machinery has published a set of principles designed to help reduce bias in algorithms. Can it help CIOs to protect their employers from legal problems?

Amazon announced a bevy of new features for its AWS and EC2 services, from SQL database support to access to the same artificial intelligence that powers Alexa.

Customer demand for new services will have CIOs turning to the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence to innovate and deliver.

With public cloud vendors looking to AI as an edge over the competition, Montreal's mix of AI talent and cheap data centres could prove the right mix to benefit from the battle.

Thirdshelf is a loyalty marketing solution made for small, independent retailers. Its customer tracking capabilities, paired with artificial intelligence (AI) that automates many aspects of customer relationship building, is the Ingenious Award winner in the SMB mid-market solution category for 2016.

Where will IT take us in 2017 and beyond? Gartner charts out some ideas that give us a sense of where it's going.

Salesforce Einstein will provide users with new functions such as predictive lead scoring and vision-based search

In addition to ARM, SoftBank's other high-profile investments in recent years have included a 35 per cent stake in Yahoo Japan, a controlling stake in American telecom provider Sprint, which was acquired in 2013, and an early stake in Chinese tech giant Alibaba, part of which it sold earlier this year for US$7.9 billion